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Name: Ladislav CABADA Position: Associate Professor of Political Science, Metropolitan University Prague ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9604-0987 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F9lyk_MAAAAJ Areas of interest: regionalism and development studies, Euroscepticism, political anthropology Latest publications: * Cabada, L. (2024). Czech Sociology and Transformation. In: Roncevic, B., Besednjak Valič, T. (eds) Sociology and Post-Socialist Transformations in Eastern Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65556-2_9 * Waisová, Š., Cabada, L. (2022). China in Central Europe: The End of the Dream. In: Rajaoson, J., Edimo, R.M.M. (eds) New Nationalisms and China's Belt and Road Initiative. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08526-0_7
Name: Luciana-Alexandra GHICA Position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Bucharest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-7296 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=03AHlPIAAAAJ Areas of interest: foreign policy, international cooperation, political science as a discipline Latest publications: * Ghica, L. A. (2024). 'Transforming International Development: Navigating the Shift Towards Digital Cooperation', in C. Bjola, & I. Manor (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy, pp. 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192859198.013.14 * Ghica, L. A. (2021). Who are we? The diversity puzzle in European political science. European Political Science 20, 58–84. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-021-00319-9
Name: Frederic GONTHIER Position: Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Grenoble ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8536-6487 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LoWM4O4AAAAJ Areas of interest: welfare attitudes, value systems and party systems in comparative perspective Latest publications: * Gonthier, F. (2023). Partisans like any other? How populist supporters assess the economy when their party is in office. European Political Science Review, 15(4), 659–670. doi:10.1017/S1755773923000206 * Gonthier, F., & Guerra, T. (2023). How party polarization shapes the structuring of policy preferences in Europe. Party Politics, 29(2), 384-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211064606
Name: Christian HAERPFER Position: Research Professor of Political Science, University of Vienna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7350-9049 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5vPCx-kAAAAJ Areas of interest: Latest publications: * Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano, J., Welzel, C., & Haerpfer, C. (2023). Harmonization in the World Values Survey, in Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Wolf, C., Slomczynski, K., & Jenkins, C. (eds) Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206
Name: Kseniya KIZILOVA Position: Postdoc researcher, Leuphana University; Vice-Director, Institute for Comparative Survey Research ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5032-3815 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MsypYZ4AAAAJ Areas of interest: trust, social capital Latest publications: * Kizilova, K., Norris, P. (2024). “Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war. European Political Science 23, 234–250. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00450-9 * Kizilova, K., Diez-Medrano, J., Welzel, C., & Haerpfer, C. (2023). Harmonization in the World Values Survey, in Tomescu-Dubrow, I., Wolf, C., Slomczynski, K., & Jenkins, C. (eds) Survey Data Harmonization in the Social Sciences, Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119712206
Name: Sokratis KONIORODS Position: Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the Peloponnese ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2275-0801 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xLdv88QAAAAJ Areas of interest: trust, social capital Latest publications: * Koniordos, S. M., & Sotiropoulos, D. A. (2023). The paradoxes and mixed record of culture wars in contemporary Greece. Hellenic Observatory Discussion Papers on Greece and Southeast Europe (182). Hellenic Observatory, European Institute. * Koniordos, S.M. (Ed.). (2018). Networks, Trust and Social Capital: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations from Europe. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248158
Name: Alenka KRAŠOVEC Position: Professor of Political Science, University of Ljubljana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9595-7742 Google Scholar: --- Areas of interest: political parties, parliaments, governments, elections, democratisation, policy-making processes Latest publications: * Krašovec, A. (2024). Slovenia: Political Developments and Data in 2023. European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook, 63: 447-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.12456 * Krašovec, A., & Krpic, T. (2024). Newcomers as Prime Ministers: A New Mode of Coalition Governance? in Bergman, T., Ilonszki, G., & Hellstrom, J. (eds), Coalition Politics in Central Eastern Europe, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328483
Name: Iryna KUZINA Position: Associate Professor of Sociology, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0243-2926 Google Scholar: Areas of interest: Latest publications: * Saukh, P., Nabok, M., Kizilov, O., & Kuzina, I. (2021). The Quality of Higher Education in Ukraine through the Eyes of Students, Herald of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine , 3(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.37472/2707-305X-2021-3-2-11-5
Name: Domenico MADDALONI Position: Professor of Sociology, University of Salerno ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-2299 Google Scholar: --- Areas of interest: social and political change, globalisation, and international migration Latest publications: * Moffa, G., & Maddaloni, D. (2024). Il lavoro dei migranti italiani a Bogota tra dinamiche globali e locali. Mondi Migranti, 3, 115-137. https://doi.org/10.3280/MM2024-007 * Addeo, F., Blanco-Gregory, R., Maddaloni, D., & Moffa, G. (2023). At the Origins of Migration Choices: A Survey of Students at Two South European Universities. Societies, 13(2), 40. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13020040
Name: Pippa NORRIS Position: Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney; McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Harvard University ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8632-4636 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tLialq4AAAAJ Areas of interest: political trust, public opinion and elections, democratic institutions and cultures, gender politics, political communications Latest publications: * Kizilova, K., Norris, P. (2024). “Rally around the flag” effects in the Russian–Ukrainian war. European Political Science 23, 234–250. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00450-9 * Norris, P. (2024). “Things fall apart, the center cannot hold”: fractionalized and polarized party systems in Western democracies. European Political Science 23, 546–566. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-023-00467-0
Name: Bi PURANEN Position: Associate Professor in the History of Economics, University of Stockholm ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0751-2928 Google Scholar: --- Areas of interest: values, social norms, competence development Latest publications: * Svallfors, S., Larsson, E. C., Puranen, B., & Ekström, A. M. (2023). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among first-generation immigrants living in Sweden, European Journal of Public Health, 33(4), 687–694. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad073 * van Wees, S., Stalgren, M., Viberg, N., Puranen, B., Ekstrom, A. M., & Lrsson, E. (2023). “Who is Anders Tegnell?” Unanswered questions hamper COVID-19 vaccine uptake: A qualitative study among ethnic minorities in Sweden, Vaccine, 41(49), 7476-7481, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.11.016
Name: Bogdan RADU Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4450-9311 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wEbuO2QAAAAJ Areas of interest: democratization, tolerance, political culture, public opinion in international relations Latest publications: * Radu, B. M., Angi, D. (2023). Youth Religious Socialization and Social Capital. A Case Study. Political Science Studies, 70(1), 80-102. https://doi.org/10.33896/SPolit.2023.70.4 * Radu, B. M. (2022). The quest for convergence in Hungarian-Romanian relationships: A multi-actor approach and the transferability of good practices. Analele Universității din București Seria Științe Politice, 24(2), 211-236. https://doi.org/10.54885/AUB-SP-DCPQ3098
Name: Claudiu D. TUFIȘ Position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Bucharest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0482-6937 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l4WW8ckAAAAJ Areas of interest: political culture, democracy, electoral behaviour, civil society, research methodology Latest publications: * Băluță, I., & Tufiș, C. (2024). Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative. East European Politics and Societies, 38(2), 616-638. https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254231181069 * Soare, S., & Tufis, C. (2023). No populism’s land? Religion and gender in Romanian politics. Identities, 30(1), 112–130. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2021.1953784
Name: Agnieszka TURSKA-KAWA Position: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Silesia in Katowice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2748-7037 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xLhg54sAAAAJ Areas of interest: psychology of politics, motivations and emotions ruling politics, cognitive aspects of political choices Latest publications: * Turska-Kawa, A., & Galica, N. (2024). Religiosity and Conspiracy Beliefs: Patterns of Relationships. Journal of Comparative Politics, 17(2), 36-48. * Turska-Kawa, A., Kasińska-Metryka, A., Pałka-Suchojad, K. (2023). War in Ukraine. Media and Emotions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37608-5
Name: Aneta VILÁGI Position: Assistant Professor of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8993-9417 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PVUo Areas of interest: Slovak politics, European integration, research methodology Latest publications: * Vilagi, A., & Babos, P. (2024). Unpacking negative public attitudes towards European union integration: insights from a qualitative study in Slovakia. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2024.2401868 * Baboš, P., Világi, A. (2024). Voting Before Blogging: Political Participation of Youth in Slovakia. In: Harring, M. (eds) Growing Up in Times of Crisis. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58626-2_7
Name: Christian WELZEL Position: Political Culture Research Professor, Leuphana University ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1562-3580 Google Scholar: --- Areas of interest: human empowerment, emancipative values, cultural change and democratization Latest publications: * Zhirkov, K., & Welzel, C. (2024). Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research. Political Research Quarterly, 77(3), 696-712. https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129241241753 * Kravtsova, M., Oshchepkov, A. & Welzel, C. (2024). The shadow of the family: Historical roots of social trust in Europe. PLoS ONE, 19(2), e0295783. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295783
